9th December. The Dragons' Cave.

Ronnie tells me there's a cave on Kinnoul Hill called The Dragons' Cave, Apparently St.Serf was up there and did a bit of slaying in the 5th century. He did the same trick at Dunning where the upper part of the village is still referred to as 'The Draygon'.

The obvious question is What exactly did The Saint slay? It's really no different today as far as some of the more wackier reports go, except its more likely to be Alien abductions than Dragons in lairs. Saint Serf could easily have been off his trolley, but there's a simpler explanation, given just how bunged up with belief and superstition the populous must have been if today's anything to go by.

A young woman has gone missing, (who in reality had run off to the bright lights of Perth) a crime where the Dragon is clearly the culprit, the villagers are terrified of the wood, so they call in 'The Saint'. Saint Serf goes off into the wood finds nothing of course - comes back and to shut up the villagers, reassures them that the dragon is dead, (making light of his role in its death). Now they can all get on with daily life as normal, and there won't be any need to bother him again. However St Serf has made a rod for his own back and it's not long before he gets a call about another different Dragon problem... and so the legend grew amongst the people.